Marking the 200th launch for the venerable Atlas-Centaur family of rockets and 52nd Atlas V, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V thundered off the launch pad Tuesday night to deploy the third Mobile User Objective System for the United States Navy. MUOS-3 joins two existing satellites in geosynchronous orbit providing secure, reliable high-speed communications to […]
Continuing their track record for delivering both commercial and civial missions to orbit, Arianespace successfully launched the Sentinel-1A Earth observation satellite for Europe today. Carried onboard a Soyuz rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1A blasted off on time at 5:02:26 p.m. EDT to begin a 23-minute ascent into a Sun-synchronous orbit. Comments What […]
Government Accountability Office denies Blue Origin’s protest over fairness of NASA’s selection process for new user of Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39-A “On Dec. 12, 2013, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) notified NASA that it had denied a protest filed against the Agency by Blue Origin LLC on Sept. 13, 2013. In its […]
